CMP333 Cloud Computing Coursework 2 Assignment Brief 2025

CMP333 Assignment Brief

You are required to develop an Entity Framework-based ASP.NET MVC web application that supports creating, editing, deleting, and listing details of students within a University module (CMP333 Cloud Computing) and the required information that is stored in a supporting database. This application is required to be hosted both locally (Microsoft Visual Studio) and in the Cloud (e.g. Azure or AWS). The purpose of this application is for administrative purposes, used by the University administration staff to track the progress of students within the specified module.

You should record the following (but not limited to) information about each student:

• Surname (e.g. “Bloggs”)
• First name (e.g. “Joe”)
• Age (e.g. 20)
• BNumber (e.g. B00123456)
• Telephone No. (e.g. “0841234567”)
• Address (e.g. “123 Fake Street”)
• Email (e.g. “bloggs-j@.ulster.ac.uk”)
• Assessment 1 Mark (e.g. 84%)
• Assessment 2 Mark (e.g. 50%)
• Overall Module Mark (e.g. 67%)

When developing this ASP.NET application, you will need to create a database to hold the relevant information. You should then use the Entity Framework to map the database to a C# representation that will allow you to develop an MVC web-based user interface with the normal CRUD operations. You should also utilise the Repository Pattern as part of your development to allow you to isolate all the data access code from the rest of the application. 

You are expected to develop a friendly web browser enabled user interface to facilitate creating, editing, deleting and viewing of the database information. All data input is required to be validated. You are expected to integrate your application code with the Home/About/Contact web pages provided by the .net MVC template. Furthermore, use realistic data throughout the different testing scenarios. The application should contain a home page to demonstrate the purpose of the application. A details page that displays information on each student and a contacts page for University staff information related to the module/course.

You should present the following as part of your assignment submission:

• Code for the “Student” C# class model.
• Screenshots of the associated database table structure and content, as well as the SQL code that created the tables.    
• Code for the “IStudentRepository” interface C# class and “StudentRepository” C# class.    
• Code for the “StudentController” C# class.
• Testing demonstration video (Max 10 minutes) for web-enabled Creating/Editing/Details/Deleting of student records. All functionality must be fully demonstrated.
• Deployment to the Cloud. You must deploy the application on the Cloud and provide an external URL to access the web application from. This is in conjunction with being able to run the application locally on your computer. You are required during the demonstration (testing video) to be able to show the application working locally and then being able to access via an external URL from where the application is hosted on the Cloud vendor of choice, whether that is Azure or AWS, etc. Details of how to access this externally hosted version of the application must be provided in the report.                                                                                          
• Provide brief technology recommendations based on the features available on Cloud platforms on the best strategy to scale the application to a wider customer base throughout mainland UK/Ireland and beyond, in essence recommending how a fully viable product could be deployed to reach millions of users. This is a hypothetical research question that will not be implemented but rather discussed in your assignment report.

Individual feedback will be provided to you within 20 working days of the submission deadline date before 3/6/25.

(Note. This assignment should be named “Assignment 2” and uploaded to the provided submission link. The submission should include your project code files, a report (Max 1000 words) with your database screenshots and feature recommendations and details to access the externally hosted Cloud version of the application and a testing demonstration video. Compress these submission components into a zip/rar file and upload to the provided link.

No extension to the deadline will be granted unless there are extenuating circumstances, in which case you MUST submit an EC1 form to your course director. The module co-ordinator must be informed before the assignment submission deadline. Plagiarism will be dealt with according to the university policy.

Assignment 2 Marking Scheme